Psalm 113

Praise the Lord!

Praise him, you servants of the Lord.
Praise the name of the Lord.
The Lord's name should be praised
now and forever.
The Lord's name should be praised
from where the sun rises to where it sets.
The Lord is supreme over all the nations.
His glory reaches to the skies.

No one is like the Lord our God.
He rules from heaven.
He bends down to look
at the skies and the earth.
The Lord lifts the poor from the dirt.
He takes the helpless from the ashes.
And seats them with princes,
the princes of his people.
He gives children to the woman who has none.
He makes her a happy mother.

Praise the Lord!

Psalm 114

The Israelites went out of Egypt.
The people of Jacob left that foreign country.
Then Judah became God's holy place.
Israel became the land he ruled.

The Reed Sea looked and ran away.
The River Jordan turned back.
The mountains danced like sheep
and the hills like little lambs.
Sea, why did you run away?
Jordan, why did you turn back?
Mountains, why did you dance like sheep?
Hills, why did you dance like little lambs?

Earth, shake with fear before the Lord.
Tremble in the presence of the God of Jacob.
He turned a rock into a pool of water.
He changed a hard rock into a spring of water.